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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-franchise-and-representation-act-2020/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "asp/2020/6",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representation) Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-franchise-and-representation-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "(1) The `Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/170) are amended as follows.\n(2) After regulation 9, insert—\n“Additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote for a particular or indefinite period based on detention in a penal institution\n9A An application to vote by proxy for a particular or indefinite period under paragraph 3(3)(e) (absent vote at elections for definite or indefinite period - offenders sentenced to term not exceeding 12 months) of Schedule 4 must state—\n(a) that the applicant is eligible to vote by proxy at local government elections on grounds relating to the applicant's detention in a penal institution, and\n(b) the name of the penal institution at which the applicant is detained.”.\n(3) In regulation 10 (additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote in respect of a particular election), after paragraph (5D) insert—\n“(5E) Paragraph (5F) applies where an application under paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 4—\n(a) is made on grounds relating to the applicant's detention in a penal institution, and\n(b) is made after 5pm on the sixth day before the date of a poll at the election for which it is made.\n(5F) The application must, in addition to providing the information required by paragraph (1), state—\n(a) that the applicant is detained in a penal institution, and\n(b) the name of the penal institution at which the applicant is detained.”.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/6/schedule/paragraph/1",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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